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• Whitney Allison van de Merwe, Sandy, Salt Lake City
• Florence BAUDRY
• Emmanuel Jr. Steverlynck, Ieper, 8900, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium († 2009)
• Dennis Johannes Nijhof, Apeldoorn

• Carl North (80)
• Ben Verberkt (60)
• Anna Maria van Leijsen (91), Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Kroos (54)
• Bernardus Kaaij (73), Egmond aan Zee, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Troost (92)
• Cornelis van den Bos (84), Sommelsdijk
• Bernard Timmermans (75)
• Arnolda Aartsen (89), Bilthoven,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna D'Hauw (96), Brugge, West-Vlaanderen, België

• 1983 » Jerome Harrison, American football player
• 1983 » Pepe, Brazilian-Portuguese footballer
• 1984 » Beren Saat, Turkish actress
• 1984 » Emmanuel Adebayor, Togolese international footballer, forward
• 1984 » Natalia Lafourcade, Mexican singer-songwriter
• 1985 » Fernando Llorente, Spanish international footballer, striker
• 1986 » Hannah Kearney, American skier
• 1989 » Gabriel Obertan, French footballer
• 1990 » Kateřina Cachová, Czech heptathlete
• 1990 » Takanoiwa Yoshimori, Mongolian sumo wrestler

• 1981 » Howard Hanson, American composer, conductor, and educator (b. 1896)
• 1981 » Robert Aickman, English author and activist (b. 1914)
• 1985 » Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 1989 » Roy Eldridge, American trumpet player (b. 1911)
• 1993 » Constance Ford, American model and actress (b. 1923)
• 1994 » Bill Hicks, American comedian (b. 1961)
• 1995 » Jack Clayton, English director and producer (b. 1921)
• 1997 » David Doyle, American actor (b. 1929)
• 1998 » Theodore Schultz, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 2000 » George L. Street III, American captain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1913)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.6 million citizens.
• March 6 » The British ferry MSHerald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds, killing 193.
• April 19 » The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with Good Night.
• May 5 » Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
• November 7 » In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
• November 8 » Remembrance Day bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded.
• December 22 » In Zimbabwe, the political parties ZANU and ZAPU reach an agreement that ends the violence in the Matabeleland region known as the Gukurahundi.

The temperature on February 26, 1987 was between -3.6 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.